Political Quotes

“Thank you very much. I agree. That sounds good in the sense of taking an additional role by the Federal Government paying for these things. The problem is, we've got a proposed budget by the administration of $3.8 trillion. Almost half of that money is borrowed from people like Saudi Arabia, China--people that don't like us very much. And the American public knows it just doesn't work. These things sound good but at some point, you have got to pay your bills, and we've got to start paying our bills. The President outlined his plan, and the reality is he's not hearing the concerns of the American people. He is not hearing the concerns of the people of Arkansas. What he is doing is he is telling us what health care coverage we can have as opposed to what the American people want. The American people now in overwhelming majority have said, ``No. This is not the bill we want.'' Right now, we're spending more than any other country in the world by far with our health care system. The proposal that we have will spend almost another trillion dollars and yet costs will continue to rise. So, again, instead of trying to do something in the free market way to lower costs, what the bill actually does is basically say we're going to do that by setting price controls. And price controls don't work. What we're going to do is have rationing, and we will have decreased quality of care. Another real concern I've got is the abortion coverage.…”